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- noun Plural form of
catharsis .
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Examples
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But this is not the Broadway theater I knew and loved, whose plays purged us with their Aristotelian catharses.
Melanie Chartoff: Spine-tingling"Spiderman"--for All the Wrong Reasons Melanie Chartoff 2011
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Narrative shows both how a tendency to altruistic punishment can bring you closer to those equilibria and how they can be broken, either to be repaired (happy endings, or some tragic catharses) or not (as in some other kinds of tragedy).
In Advance of Russell Crowe, Adam Thorpe tells us about the ‘Real’ Robin Hood 2010
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Truly experimental, avant-garde music is frequently heavily laden with emotional catharses, existential questing, or convoluted obscurity.
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Today's catharses aren't spiritual; they are commercial.
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Equating the respective emotional catharses of love and death (all of them, to varying degrees)
Mi Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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Equating the respective emotional catharses of love and death (all of them, to varying degrees)
Archive 2006-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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My problem with the movie was in the extraordinary convergence of catharses going on.
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With only 23,000 other columnists trying to pitch their own catharses, I figured there was room for another 700 – 800 words a week, especially since newspapers appeared to be desperate for features.
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The Republicans 'catharses were based not upon principle but upon their political survival.
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Favreau trusts that we've either seen enough movies or actually had lives so that we don't need everything laid out for us in big emotional scenes with the actors yelling and snuffling their way to fake catharses.
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